Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs?especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga. Not yapping Jimmie but affectionate, face-licking Gika is the favorite of Alba's daughter, an important, proud little miss of three, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Stuart Fitz-James...
...chosen to play his heroes. His plays do not need bolstering, but The Criminal Code, one of the most pungent of the season's hits, is undeniably better for the presence of the virtuoso Arthur Byron, and Broken Dishes would certainly suffer by the removal of Donald Meek. It is the venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate...
...Donald Meek, managing to strike new and sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...
...believe so," answered the little Chancellor in a voice curiously meek and soft, "I do believe so!" and twitching himself painfully into his limousine he rode away, whistling pensively. Later, when the whole British press had begun to roar unanimous approval, the little lame Yorkshireman said: "If England is pleased, so am I. I set myself a task and it was not an easy one. Without the help of my wife I could never have achieved...
...righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North Dakota in 1922 retired Porter...